CVE-2008-1161
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 6.9%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the Matroska demuxer (demuxers/demux_matroska.c) in xine-lib before 1.1.10.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Matroska file with invalid frame sizes.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.9% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1170)
- Published
- March 10, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1170 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- matroska / demuxer
References
- http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset%3Bnode=a62d6f482a69%3Bstyle=gitweb
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29323(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29601
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31393
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1536
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:178
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28543
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-635-1
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41172
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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